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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez Mind Map
Time Period
He was born on March 6, 1927 in Colombia & died on April 17, 2014.
Education
Gregory Rabassa - Translator
Garcia-Marquez went to a secondary school in Bogotá at 13 years old. He then studied law at the University of Bogotá in 1946. He abandoned this because he spent all of class writing stories and became a journalist.
Childhood
Born in Aracataca, Colombia. He grew up with his grandparents. He moved to Barranquilla with his mother after his grandfather died when he was 8. His mother and father moved there with Marquez's father after he received a job opportunity in Barranquilla. He met his future wife when he was about 9 years old and knew he was going to marry her.
Bio
Garcia-Marquez was one of the best-known Colombian Novelists of the 1900's. He won an international prize of literature in 1972 and the Nobel prize of literature in 1982. Garcia-Marquez was raised early on by his grandparents because his parents' relationship was not blessed by his mother's parents. His Grandfather, whom he called Papalelo was a well-respected war Veteran who helped him explore his creativity and taught him the cruel reality of the world. His grandmother also played an important role in raising him and helped him develop a dead pan style of writing. He soon moved to Sucre and interned at Barranquilla. He studied law at the National University of Colombia and started his journaling career. He is known as a left-leaning writer and wrote texts that aligned with his political beliefs. He married his childhood sweet heart in 1958 and had 2 kids. Finally, he died a peaceful death at the ripe age of 87 in 2014 in Mexico City.
Career
He was going to law school and decided to become a journalist after finding a passion in writing. From 1948-1949 he wrote for
El Universal
and from 1950-1952 he wrote for
El Heraldo
. During that time he was apart of the Barranquilla Group with influenced his career.
His grandparents were his writing inspirations because his parents were not a part of his early life. He lived in Colombia until his twenties when he because of a much more worldly known writer. His grandfather on his mother's side (who fought in the Colombian Civil War) would remind him: "You can't image how much a dead man weighs", which greatly influenced his writings. His grandmother on the same side would tell him supernatural stories or tales and would tell them as if they were real.
Important Works
Important and most famous works are
One Hundred Years of Solitude
(1967),
Chronicle of Death Fortold
(1981), and
Love in the Time of Cholera
(1985).
Writing Style
Most well-known for his use of magical realism, which he combines fantasy with a narrative that is realistic.
Themes
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez criticizes beliefs or values from his home country of Colombia; themes of which include: imagination, greed, religion, solitude, and independence.
Works Cited
“Gabriel García Márquez.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 30 Jan. 2023,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez
.
“Gregory Rabassa.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 Sept. 2022,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Rabassa
.
Gregory Rabassa was born and raised in New York in 1922 and died in 2016. He served in World War II and later got a degree from Dartmouth. He recieved numerous awards in his lifetime including the PEN Translation prize in 1977 and the PEN/Ralph Manheim medal of translation in 1982.